Platypelis Boulenger, 1882
Platypelis Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 474. Type species: Platypelis cowanii Boulenger, 1882, by monotypy.
Platyhyla Boulenger, 1889, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 4: 247. Type species: Platyhyla grandis Boulenger, 1889, by monotypy. Synonymy by Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 115.
Paracophyla Millot and Guibé, 1951, Mem. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Ser. A, 5: 209. Type species: Paracophyla tuberculata Millot and Guibé, 1951, by monotypy. Synonymy by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 70.
English Names
Giant Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 91).
Distribution
Madagascar.
Comment
See accounts by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 70-87, and Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 132-137, and who noted that many unnamed species are contained within this genus. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested that Platypelis (along with Stumpffia and Rhombophryne) renders Plethodontohyla paraphyletic and they provided a phylogenetic estimate of exemplar species.
Contained taxa
- Platypelis alticola (Guibé, 1974)
- Platypelis barbouri Noble, 1940
- Platypelis cowanii Boulenger, 1882
- Platypelis grandis (Boulenger, 1889)
- Platypelis mavomavo Andreone, Fenolio, and Walvoord, 2003
- Platypelis milloti Guibé, 1950
- Platypelis olgae Rakotoarison, Glaw, Vieites, Raminosoa, and Vences, 2012
- Platypelis pollicaris Boulenger, 1888
- Platypelis ravus Glaw, Köhler, and Vences, 2012
- Platypelis tetra Andreone, Fenolio, and Walvoord, 2003
- Platypelis tsaratananaensis Guibé, 1974
- Platypelis tuberifera (Methuen, 1920)
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